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What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition

by Rune Klevjer , Stephan Günzel , Jörg Sternagel
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783837645798
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Transcript Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Publishing
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  • Pages: 242
  • Original Price: USD 50.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised and Annotated Edition
  • Item Weight: 332 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.

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